Mayor de Blasio Has Thousands Of New Yorkers Standing In The Cold

Mayor Bill de Blasio invited guests to Gracie Mansion, "your house," as the mayor likes to call it—yesterday afternoon for a special open house celebrating his new administration. Thousands of New Yorkers from all five boroughs lined up outside of his/our home for more than two hours for a chance to be corralled through four rooms of the mansion ('the tour') and to get a photo taken with the mayor.

Given the length of the line, the weather, and the fact that guests were not allowed to use the bathroom in their own home, it was surprising to hear that most people did not think they had completely wasted their Sunday afternoon.

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I'm curious about this form of liberal snark where a commenter sarcastically adopts the views of their opponents, almost always a quasi-literate reactionary bumpkin, for... laughs is it? It just seems like a way of saying something to win approval among other like minded people but without really saying anything at all.

Gracie Mansion has been open to the public for years. Yes, you had to buy a ticket like a museum (which it is), but it was open. Bloomberg paid to have it renovated then opened it to New Yorkers for the first time ever. I'm happy Bloomberg is finally out but all this bullshit spinning de Blasio's camp is doing is ridiculous.